The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man Wednesday afternoon for attempting to bring a machete and three knives into the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC), which is attached to the U.S. Capitol building, just hours before President-elect Donald Trump was expected to arrive for meetings with Republicans.
Capitol Police released a statement saying he was arrested just after 2 p.m. ET and that officers spotted the machete and the three knives together in the man’s bag as he was trying to enter the CVC. He was arrested and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon.
“Just after 2:00 p.m., our officers stopped and arrested a man who tried to get a machete into the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC),” the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement. “During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the…
